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Events on Tuesday 18 November 1952 1
1895 – 1952Paul Eluard (1895-1952)Died 18 November 1952, aged 56Paul Eluard, one of the founders of the French Surrealist movement and a leading poet of the Resistance, died of a heart attack in Charenton-le-Pont on 18 November 1952. His poetry collection Liberty became emblematic of wartime resistance to Nazi occupation. He was a close associate of Andre Breton and Pablo Picasso.